CDP News: Oct. 2, 2015

CDP News: Oct. 2, 2015

Welcome to this week’s edition of CDP News! We like to use this space to review recent happenings in and around the Center for Deployment Psychology, while also looking ahead to upcoming events. We've got lots of great upcoming events and training coming up. Let's take a look at them!

Registration for our next Regional Civilian One-Week Training event is currently open. The event will be held in the Albany, NY-metro area from 26-30 October. Registration for the event is $95 and includes up to 34 CE credits. The five-day training will have a variety of modules on topics such as military culture, the deployment cycle, sleep disorders, working with military families, as well as training in Prolonged Exposure (PE) Therapy. If you can’t travel to New York, but would like to be emailed when registration for future Regional One-Week Civilian Training opportunities, please complete the form here.

If you're looking for online training, we've currently got three great options. Our next two-day evidence-based psychotherapy training will be Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression (CBT-D) on 15-16 October. This training will be held via Second Life and will cover the fundamentals of CBT-D with regards to working with Service members and Veterans. The course will also include 13.5 CEs. Registrations is also available for an online training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia on 5-6 November. Thirdly, we've also got the upcoming CDP Presents webinar. The topic will be "Behavioral Health Concerns in Military Connected Patients." Participants of this webinar will be eligible to receive one free CE or CME.

Over in the CDP blog, this week’s Staff Perspective column by Dr. Carin Lefkowitz, entitled “My Therapist Has a Wet Nose - The State of Research on Animal-Assisted Therapy for Military Clients”. Dr. Lefkowitz explains the various terms that cover animals, as well as what the current research has to say regarding the use of these animals. It's a very prominent subject in the news currently and is definitely worth a read.. Also, don’t forget to take a few minutes to read this week’s Research Update on the CDP’s Blog. It’s got all the latest news, articles and plenty of useful links related to deployment psychology.

That’s all for now. We hope everyone has a great weekend. We hope to see you back here on Monday for a new entry in our “By the Numbers” column!

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